A narrative of the captivity of Nehemiah How in 1745-1747; reprinted from the original edition of 1748

HOW'S NARRATIVE

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NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITIES

A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY

OF NEHEMIAH HOW IN

1745-1747

Reprinted from the anginal edition of 1748,

with introduction and notes by

Victor Hugo Paltsits

CLEVELAND

THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY I

COPYRIGHT, 1904

BY
THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION, Victor Hugo Paltsits . 7

How's NARRATIVE . . . . .23

Facsimile of original title-page . . 25

INDEX . 61

INTRODUCTION

THE present town of Putney, Windham
County, Vermont, is situated on the
west bank of the Connecticut River. It
extends for a distance of five miles from north
to south, and stretches between six and seven
miles from its eastern to its western boundary.
In the easterly part of the town, formed by a
large bend in the river, the Great Meadow is
located, and comprises about five hundred
acres. Its soil has always yielded easily to
cultivation, rewarding industry with an abun-
dant crop of hay or various kinds of grain.
Originally the surrounding forests were over-
grown with beach, elm, maple, butternut and
oak trees, while the lowest part of the meadow
abounded with a tangled growth of yellow
pine, and the steep hills on the west were
covered with white pines of huge growth.*
This region, we may believe, was early inhab-
ited by the aborigines, if flint arrow-heads,
spears, broken pots and other Indian remains
are evidence of their habitat; but whether
they were permanent or merely occasional
residents has not been determined.

In 1735-6, the Massachusetts-Bay govern-
ment, cognizant from bitter experience of the

*For the topographical description I am indebted to
the accounts by Rev. Amos Foster, and David L. Mansfield,
in Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, vol. v, pp.
217-222, 250-251.

8 INTRODUCTION

disasters from Indian incursions at the west-
ward, determined to establish a chain of
fortified settlements in the valley of the Con-
necticut. Willing settlers were gradually
procured through the encouragement of gov-
ernmental land-grants, and presumably in
1738 or 1739 the occupation of the Great
Meadow and No. 2 (now Westmoreland, N.
H.), across the river, was begun. Nehemiah
How, of Grafton, Mass., William Phips,
David Rugg, of Lancaster, Mass., their fam-
ilies, together with Robert Baker and others,
made the first clearing in the Great Meadow,
and built a fort in the central part, called
Fort Hill. Daniel How, nephew of Nehe-
miah, also a captive at Quebec during a part
of the war, with Thomas Crisson and others
from Rutland, Mass., cleared the ground at
No. 2, built themselves log-huts and depended
for protection on the neighboring fort, to the
building of which they had contributed.* In
a few years these intrepid pioneers, by the dint
of assiduity, succeeded in transforming the
primeval meadows and uplands to conditions
favorable for vegetation and pasturage, and
gathered a good stock of cattle. Yet latent
horrors of Indian warfare lay beneath the
apparent tranquillity of these years of peace.
The first depredation by the Indians in the
Connecticut valley, during King George's
war, was on the Great Meadow.

*N. H. Town Papers, vol. xiii (1884), pp. 652-653.

INTRODUCTION

On July 5th, 1745, William Phips was
hoeing in his cornfield, in the southwest corner
of the meadow, when suddenly two Indians
surprised him, and led him away captive to
the woods — a distance of near half a mile.
They halted in order to permit one of them to
descend a steep hill, where he had left some-
thing. Phips, with great strategic ingenuity,
seizing the moment when the remaining In-
dian was off his guard, struck him down with
his hoe and "chop'd him very much," so that
he died soon thereafter. Snatching this In-
dian's gun, he shot and killed the second
Indian as he was returning. Phips then took
to his heels, but was almost instantly killed by
a shot from one of the guns of three other
Indians, who appeared on the spot at this
juncture. They scalped him and "mangled
his body in a most Inhuman manner." The
news of this outbreak brought Capt. Ebenezer
Alexander with a company of fifty-six men to
the region, and they were kept in service
scouting1 the woods and guarding the towns,
from July i2th until September 8th.* There
was a brief lull in the exhibitions of savagery,

*Doolittle's Short Narrative Of Mischief done by the
French and Indian Enemy, on the Western Frontiers Of
the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Boston, 1750, p. 2;
Rev. John Taylor's "Appendix" to Rev. John Williams's
Redeemed Captive returning to Zion. Sixth edition. Bos-
ton, 1795, p. 114; N. E. Hist, and Gen: Register, vol. ix, p.
163, from Hampshire County Recorder's Book; Temple and
Sheldon's Hist, of Northfteld, Mass., pp. 240-241; Hemen-
way's Vermont Hist. Gazetteer, vol. v, pp. 219, 252.

io INTRODUCTION

but on October nth, 1745,* the Great
Meadow was infested anew.

On this "black Friday" morning Nehe-
miah How walked a distance of "about 50
Rods" or a little over one-sixth of a mile from
the fort, for the purpose of cutting some wood.
He had completed his task and was returning
to the fort, but had proceeded only a few
paces, when suddenly he heard "the crackling
of Fences" behind him and, looking back in
the direction whence the noise came, "saw 12
or 13 Indians, with red painted Heads," run-
ning after him. Starting on a run, he shouted
desperately, hoping thereby to attract the
attention of the guard at the fort. The fleet-
footed Indians, however, overtook him by the
time he had gone ten rods. They seized him ;
led him away to a "swamp," probably where
the creek now is, and there his captors bound
him. The Indians, who were a party of
Abenakis of St. Francis,t and numbered about
fifty,t were in the meadow scarce an hour, but
in that time made a futile attack on the fort,
and created havoc among the cattle in the

*The dates are all according to "old style," in use by
the English, unless otherwise designated.

^•Collection de Manuscrits relatifs d la Nouvelle-France,
vol. iii, p. 268.

JDeacon Noah Wright, in a letter written to his brother
from Deerfield, on October 27th, 1745, says the sentry at
the fort, when attacked, told him there were about fifty
Indians in the whole party.— 2V. E. Hist, and Gen. Register,
vol. ii (1848), p. 207. The Hampshire County Recorder's
Book, in 2V. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. ix, p. 163, gives
their number erroneously as "about fourscore French and
Indians."

INTRODUCTION it

field. Deacon Noah Wright, who arrived in
the scout sent out, found "such things to behold
as wold raise the passions of the most steddy
man in the world." Cattle which the Indians
had butchered and hides lay "spred almost
over the ground." As they went through the
meadow, the scouting party could scarce turn
their eyes "without seeing ded creatures sum
with their guts tore ought & some ript open &
others part of them carried off & a grat many
that lay untouched ondly their hyds were taken
off."* From the deposition which How made
to the French at Quebec, we learn that the
fort was commanded by a lieutenant, and con-
tained twenty soldiers and ten others when
attacked.! During the retreat one of the
Indians was killed by a shot from the fort;
another was so mortally wounded that he died
"fourteen Days" after their arrival in Canada,
and a third, who had hold of How, had a
bullet shot through his powder-horn.

Ho\y was liberated from the "swamp" and
led to a spot "about half a Mile" and "in open
Sight of the Fort." Passing along the west
bank of the Connecticut River, about three
miles in a northerly direction from the fort,
they observed two men in a canoe, paddling
down the river near the opposite shore, below
"Taylor's Island." They were David Rugg

*Noah Wright, in N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. ii, pp.
207-208.

ICoZZ. de M88., vol. iii, pp. 268-270.

12 INTRODUCTION

and Robert Baker. Right speedily "twenty
or thirty Guns" were discharged at them.
Rugg was killed instantly in the canoe, but
Baker succeeded in gaining his safety with
some difficulty by reaching the shore. Some
of the Indians swam the stretch of the river,
and returned with the canoe to inflict upon the
warm corpse of Rugg the indignities of the
scalping-knife. Proceeding for another mile
by the river side, they halted at a house. At
the same time How's son, Caleb, together with
Jonathan Thayer and Samuel Nutting, were
spied by the Indians running along the bank,
and five of them gave chase to head them off.
Fortunately they escaped, presumably by
means of secreting themselves "under the
Bank of the River." The Indians continued
northward until they arrived at Black River,
in the environs of Fort No. 4, now Charles-
town, N. H. They then struck out to cross
the mountain wilderness of the present state
of Vermont; probably came as far as what is
now Larrabee's Point, opposite Fort Ticon-
deroga; continued to Crown Point, and em-
barked for Quebec, through Lake Champlain
and the rivers Sorel and St. Lawrence. We
may accept How's own testimony that he was
not subjected to any severe cruelties by his
Indian captors, who generally were kind to
him. Only at Chambly was he maltreated by
some Iroquois whom he encountered. In this
he fared far better from these heartless sons of

INTRODUCTION 13

the forest, than most of his countrymen in
times of conflict.*

As soon as the assault on the Great Meadow
was communicated to Northfield, Ensign
Stratton set out with ten men for Fort Dum-
mer. On the afternoon of the same day,
Saturday, October i9th, twenty-nine men left
Deerfield; marched through Northfield, and
joined the former party at Fort Dummer, at
ten o'clock that night. Meanwhile Col. Josiah
Willard had gone to the Great Meadow, tak-
ing with him as many men of his garrison as
could be spared. The forty others followed
on Sunday morning, and arrived at the Great
Meadow about two o'clock in the afternoon.
Willard had just left with his men, and they
were therefore ordered to follow. They soon
came up with the advance party and, after
gaining what information they could from
those at the fort, the whole scout, consisting
of ninety-four men, began the march. They
followed the tracks of the Indians until about
sunset df the 2Oth, camped, and on Monday
morning, the 2ist, started for Fort No. 4,
stripping themselves on the way for battle.
When they arrived at No. 4 the enemy had
departed from the region. Lodging that night
at the fort, they began their homeward march
on the next morning, October 22d; proceeded
by way of Upper Ashuelot (Keene, N. H.),

*His testimony appears in his pamphlet and in his
deposition at Quebec.

i4 INTRODUCTION

and arrived in Northfield on Wednesday,
October 23d.*

In March, 1747, thirty or forty Indians
attempted to burn Shattuck's Fort, between
Northfield and Col. Hinsdale's Fort. They
were pursued on the 3ist from Northfield by
Capt. Eleazer Melvin and his company, as
far as the Great Meadow, but the Indians
succeeded in burning the fort which the Eng-
lish had deserted.t

The deserted region of the Great Meadow
began to be resettled in February, 1755, and
in the early part of that year the few new
settlers built another fort, in the southeast part
of the meadow. A town charter had been
granted in advance from New Hampshire,
dated December a6th, 1753.

During the dispute with New York over
territorial domain, that colony gave the town
a charter, dated November 6th, 1766. The
town was organized and the first town officers
chosen, on May 8th, 1770.$ Its subsequent
history has been steady and honorable, but
historic instinct must ever accord a high place
to the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundation
stones of its superstructure.

"This analysis is given with particularity from Noah
Wright, in N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. ii, pp. 207-208,
because misinterpreted to some extent in Hemen way's
Gazetteer, vol. v, p. 253, and Temple and Sheldon's Hist,
of Northfield, p. 241.

f Doolittle, p. 11, Cf. conflicting statements in Hemen-
way, vol. v, pp. 219, 252.

JHemenway, pp. 220-221.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Three narratives by New England captives,
during the Five Years' French and Indian
war, run parallel so far as their common resi-
dence in Quebec is concerned. They were
written by Nehemiah How, Rev. John Nor-
ton, chaplain of Fort Massachusetts, and Cap-
tain William Pote, Jr., master of the schooner
Montague, in the employ of the Massachusetts-
Bay government. The small but now exces-
sively rare pamphlets of How and Norton
were both printed in the year 1748, while the
very extensive and by far more important
journal of Pote, lay in manuscript until its
first publication in 1896. There are numerous
discrepancies of a day or two in the dates of
deaths as recorded by these three diarists, but
I am inclined generally to favor the earliest
date as the true one, because it seems likely
that each of them recorded in his diary as
soon as he received the information. They
exhibit, however, other vagaries as, for ex-
ample, mistakes in personal and place nomen-
clature, while the three accounts supplement
each other as to material facts.

It is, no doubt, a patent fact that very much
of the earlier editing of American historical
texts was performed in a faulty manner,
judged by modern critical methods. This
we have found to be particularly true of the
Indian Captivities collected by Samuel G.
Drake, and first printed for him in 1839. But
we are not to despise pioneer efforts in the

16 BIBLIOGRAPHY

landmarks of our historical work, even if our
verdict is against their present service. Drake,
be it said to his honor, saved from oblivion
much that might otherwise have been gnawed
by the tooth of time, and his work created an
interest in a field which he made peculiarly
his own. In the above-mentioned collection
he presented the first and only reprint of
How's pamphlet which has appeared up to
the present edition. He also reprinted for the
first time an annotated text of Norton's work,
as an appendix to his Particular History of the
Five Years' French and Indian War, publish-
ed at Boston in 1870. At the same time he
reissued one hundred copies separately, with
new pagination and a copy of the original
title-page.

In reprinting How's pamphlet we have
had recourse to a fine uncut copy in the New
York Public Library (Lenox Library Build-
ing). It was purchased at the first Brinley
sale, in 1879, item 481, for twenty- five dollars,
and the autograph of the Rev. Dr. Edward
Wigglesworth on the title-page, shows that he
owned it in 1748, the year of its publication.
As this tract seldom appears in the market,
and as the demand for original early Indian
captivities is great, it would be hazardous to
guess a particular figure which so fine a copy
might fetch to-day. The following analy-
tical collation is presented for the service of
collectors and bibliographers:

A I NARRATIVE I Of the
Captivity I OF | Hefyemtafy

I Who was taken by the 3tt6tanS

at the Great- \ Meadow Fort above Fort-Dum-
mer, where he was [ an Inhabitant, October
llth 1745. | Giving an Account of what he
met with in his | travelling to Canada, and
while he was in Prifon | there. ) Together with
an Account of Mr. HOWs Death | at
Canada. \ [Quotation from Psalm cxxxvii] \

BOSTON i N. E.\ Printed and Sold
oppofite to the Prifon in Queen- [ Street.
1748. 1

Printed page measures 5% in. height, by 3# in. width;
title, verso blank; "A Narrative, &c.," pp. 3-22; "The Names of
the Subfcribers," pp. (2). Signatures : A — C in fours.

GENEALOGY

Nehemiah How belonged to a worthy fam-
ily of Massachusetts Puritans.* His grand-
father, John How or Howe, was a son of John
How, Esq., who it is supposed lived in Hodin-
hull, Warwickshire, England, and was con-
nected with the family of Lord Charles How,
Earl of Lancaster, during the reign of Charles
I. The grandfather, who perhaps first resided
at Watertown, was admitted a freeman of
Sudbury on May i3th, 1640, and in 1642 was
marshal and one of the town's selectmen. In
May, 1656, he was one of thirteen petitioners
for the grant which constituted Marlborough,
and moved to that place in 1657, where he
opened the first tavern about 1661, and was
certainly carrying on the business in 1670. He
built himself a cabin in Marlborough "a little
to the east of the Indian Planting Field,"
where his descendants lived for many genera-
tions. John How was a leading citizen of the
place, and died there on May 28th, 1687, his

These genealogical data are interpreted from conflict-
ing statements in Hudson's History of Sudbury, Mass., pp.
38-39; Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass., (1903), pp. 73-74, 219-
220, 311-312; Hudson's History of Marlborough, Mass., pp.
380-381; Pierce's History of Graf ton, Mass., pp. 51, 59, 507-
508; Temple and Sheldon's History of Northfield, Mass.,
pp. 468-469; Worcester Magazine, vol. ii (1826), p. 131;
Memorial of the Morses, Boston, 1850, appendix, p. 87, No.
12; and chapter on "Howe Family in America," in Filial
Tribute to Memory of Rev. John Moffat Howe, pp. 8, 9, 11.

GENEALOGY 19

will being proved in 1689. By his wife, Mary,
he had ten sons and two daughters, born be-
tween 1641 and 1663.

One of his sons, Samuel, father of Nehe-
miah, was born in Sudbury, on October 2Oth,
1642. His first wife was Martha Bent, whom
he married in Sudbury on June ^th, 1663.
She died on August 29th, 1680. They had
a numerous issue. His second consort was the
widow Sarah (Leavitt) Clapp, whom he mar-
ried in Sudbury, on September i8th, 1685.
Lieut. Samuel How died at Sudbury, on April
I3th, 1713.

Nehemiah How was apparently the third
child by the second marriage, and was born
in 1693 at Marlborough (there is no entry of
his birth in the printed Sudbury vital records) .
He was in Sudbury in 1716; removed to Graf-
ton in 1728, where he received a partition of
five acres of land, on May 2ist, 1733. The
record shows him an active participant at the
meetings (of the proprietors of Grafton, and
they sometimes met at his house. In 1734,
he was moderator at two meetings of this
body, was selectman in 1735; town clerk from
1736-1738; assessor in 1737; on the school
committee of Grafton in 1739, and constable
in that year. About that year he removed
to the Great Meadow, as one of the original
settlers there. Nehemiah married Margaret,
the daughter of Capt. Benjamin Willard, and
they had twelve children, as follows:

20 GENEALOGY

1. Joshua, b. October nth, 1716; m. Ly-
dia Robbins.

2. Submit, b. March 4th, 1718.

3. Caleb, b. January 3Oth, 1720; d. June
2d, 1721.

4. Easter, b. April 25th, 1722.

5. Caleb, b. December 3ist, 1723; m.
Jemima, widow of William Phips. She suf-
fered a doleful captivity in 1755, and he was
scalped and died on July 28th, 1755, in the
same incursion.

6. Sarah, b. July i3th, 1725.

7. Samuel, b. June 151)1, 1727.

8. Edward, b. May 28th, 1728.

9. Abner, b. October 2Oth, 1731.

10. Hannah, b. November 29th, 1733.
n. Mary, b. April I2th, 1735.

12. Martha, b. September i6th, 1738.

The capture and imprisonment of Nehe-
miah How are treated fully in the "Introduc-
tion" to this volume. While in prison at
Quebec, Canada, he became ill "of ye Fever,"*
about the middle of the month of May, 1747,
and was removed to "the Hospital," where he
died on the 25th of that month, after an incar-
ceration of "one Year, seven Months, and fif-
teen Days."t In a postscript to his printed
tract some anonymous friend added this trib-
ute: "He was a loving Husband, and a tender
Father; greatly belov'd by his Brethren and

*Pote's Journal, p. 135.
f How, p. 22.

GENEALOGY 21

Sisters, and indeed by every One who was
acquainted with him: Mr. How was a Per-
son who had behav'd himself as a Christian
from his Youth. His Death is a great Loss
to his Friends; but I believe a Gain to him-
self; and that he is gone from a Captivity of
Sorrow on Earth, to join in Songs of everlast-
ing Joy among the Ransom'd of the Lord in
the heavenly Zion."* His fellow prisoner,
jPote, recorded in his journal that How was "a
Good Pious old Gentleman . . . and
ye most Contented and Easey of any man In
ye Prison."t

VICTOR HUGO PALTSITS.

New York, January 9th, 1904.

*How, p. 22.
fPote, p. 135.

HOW'S NARRATIVE

BOSTON, 1748

Reprinted from a copy of the original edition

in the New York Public Library

(Lenox Building)

A

NARRATIVE

Of the Captivity

O F

Who was taken by the Jfllllang ** the
Meadow Fort above Fort-Dummer, where be was
an Inhabitant^ Oftober nth 1745.

Giving an Account of what he met with in hi*
travelling to Canada^ and while he was in Prifon
there.

Together with an Account of Mr. HQW** Death

at Canada.

Pfal. cxxxvii. 1,2,3,4. By tbeRiversof Babylon^ there
we fat down —We bangtd our Harps upon the Wil-
tows, in tie midjt thereof. For tbere t&ey that car-
ried us away captive, required of us a Song > and
tbey that wafted us\ required of us Mirth* faying^
Sing tes one of the Songs of Zion. How /ball we
Jlftg the Lord's Song in a ftrange Land.

BOSTON: N. E.
Printed and Sold oppofue to the Prifon in Queen
Street, 1748.

H OtV'S NARRATIVE rj

[3] HOW'S NARRATIVE &c.

AT the Great - Meadow - Fort* fourteen
Miles above Fort-Dummer, October nth
1745, where I was an Inhabitant, I went
out from the Fort about 50 Rods to cut Wood;
and when I had done, I walk'd towards the
Fort, but in my Way heard the crackling of
Fences behind me, & turning about, faw 12 or
13 Indians, with red painted Heads, running
after me : On which I cry'd to God for Help,
and ran, and hollow' d as I ran, to alarm the
Fort; but by that I had ran ten Rods, the In-
dians came up with me and took hold of me :
At the fame Time the Men at the Fort fhot at
the Indians, and kill'd one on the Spot, wound-
ed another, who died fourteen Days after he
got Home, and likewife fhot a Bullet thro7 the
Powder-Horn of one that had hold of me.
They then led me into the Swampt and
pinion'd me. I then committed my Cafe to
God, and Pray'd, that fince it was his Will to
deliver me into the Hands of thefe cruel Men,
I might find Favour in their Eyes: Which

*Now Putney, Windham County, Vt. The history of
this incursion is given in extenso, in the Introduction to
this volume.

tProbably where the creek now is. — David L. Mansfield,
in Hemenway's Gazetteer, vol. v, p. 252.

28 HOW'S NARRATIVE

Requef t,God of his infinite Mercy was pleafed
to grant; for they were generally kind to me
while I was with 'em : Some of the Indians,
at that Time, took the Charge of [4] me, oth-
ers ran into the Field to kill Cattle. They led
me about half a Mile; where we ftaid in open
Sight of the Fort, 'till the Indians who were
killing Cattle came to us laden with Beef:
Then they went a little further to a Houfe,
where they ftay'd to cut the Meat from the
Bones, and cut the Helve off my Ax, and ftuck
it into the Ground, pointing the Way we went.
Then we traveled along by the River Side;*
and when we got about three Miles, I efpied
a Canoe coming down on the further Side the
River, with David Rugg and Robert Baker
belonging to our Fort. I made as much
Noife as I could, by Hamming &c. that they
might fee us before the Indians faw them, and
fo get afhore, and happily efcape; but the
Indians faw them, and fhot a-crofs the River
twenty or thirty Guns at them, and kill'd the
firft mentioned Perfon, viz. David Rugg, but
Robert Baker the other Perfon got afhore, and
efcaped. Then fome of the Indians fwam
over the River, & bro't the Canoe over the
River, fcalp'd & ftript the dead Man, and
then went about a Mile further, when we came
to another Houfe, where we ftop'd; while
there, we heard Men running by the Bank of
the River, whom I knew to be Jonathan Thay-

*Connecticut River.

HOW'S NARRATIVE 29

er, Samuel Nutting, & my Son Caleb How:
Five of the Indians ran to head them. My
Heart ak'd for them, & pray'd to God to fave
them from the Hands of the Enemy. I fup-
pofe they hid under the Bank of the River;
for the Indians were gone fome Time, but
came back without them, bleffed be God.

We went about a Mile further, where we
lodged that Night, and roafted the Meat they
had got: The next Day we traveled very flow,
by Reafon of the In- [5] dian who was wound-
ed, which was a great Favour to me. We
lodgM the fecond Night againft Number
Four'* the third Day we likewife traveled
flowly, and ftop'd often to reft, & to get along
the wounded Man; we lodg'd that Night by
the fecond fmall Rivert that runs into the
great River againft Numb. Four.

The fourth Day Morning, the Indians held
a Piece of Bark, and bid me write my Name,
& how many Days we had traveled; for, faid
they, May be Englifh-Men will come here.
That was a hard Day to me ; for it was a wet
Day, and we went over prodigious Mountains,
fo that I became weak & faint; for I had not
eaten the value of one Meal from the Time I
was taken, having nothing to eat but Beef

*Now Charlestown, N. H., so called in honor of Sir
Charles Knowles. In 1745 it was the most northern settle-
ment on the Connecticut River.

tBlack River, located on the Morris Map, 1749, pub-
lished with William Pote's Journal', also on Sauthier's map
of New York, 1779.

30 H OW'S NARRATIVE

almoft raw, without Bread or Salt. When I
came firft to the Foot of thofe Hills, I tho't it
was impoffible for me to afcend them, without
immediate Help from God; therefore my con-
ftant Recourfe was to him for Strength ; which
he was gracioufly pleafed to grant me; and
for which I defire to Praife him. We got
that Day a little before Night to a Place where
they had a hunting Houfe, a Kettle, fome
Beef,* Indian Corn, and Salt: They boil'd a
good Mefs of it; I drank of the Broth, eat of
the Meat & Corn, and was wonderfully re-
frefhed, fo that I felt like another Man.

The next Morning we got up early, and
after we had eaten, my Mafter faid to me,
You muft quick walk to Day, or I will kill
you. I told him I would go as f aft as I could,
and no f after, if he did kill me: At which,
an old Indian who was the beft Friend I had,
took Care of me. We traveled that Day very
hard, and over fteep Hills, but it being a cool
windy [6] Day, I performed it with more
Eafe than before; yet I was much tired before
Night, but dare not complain.

The next Day the Indians gave me a Pair
of their Shoes, fo that I travel'd with abundant
more Eafe than when I wore my own Shoes ;
tho' I eat but very little, our Victuals being
almoft fpent; when the Sun was about two
Hours high, the Indians fcattered to hunt, and

*Misprinted "Beer" in the original, but corrected by a
contemporary hand in the copy used for this reprint.

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they foon kill'd a Fawn, & three fmall Bears;
fo that we had again Meat enough, fome of
which we boil'd, and eat heartily of, by which
I felt ftrong.

The next Day we traveled very hard, and
perform'd it with Eafe; infomuch that one of
the Indians told me, I was a very ftrong Man :
About three of the Clock we came to the
Lake,* where they had five Canoes, and Pork,
Indian Corn, & Tobacco. We got into the
Canoes, when the Indians ftuck up a Pole
about eight Feet long with the Scalp of David
Rugg on the Top of it, painted red, with the
Likenefs of Eyes and Mouth on it: We
fail'd about ten Miles, and then went on
Shore; and after we had made a Fire, we
boil'd a good Supper, and eat heartily.

The next Day we fet fail for Crown-Point,
but when we were within a Mile of the Place,
they went on Shore, where were eight or ten
French & Indians, but before I got on Shore
two of them came running into the Water
Knee deep, and pull'd me out of the Canoe;
there they fang and danced round me, after
which one of them bid me fet down, which I
did; and then they pull'd off my Shoes and
Buckles, and [7] took them from me. Soon
after we went along to Crown-Point, and when
we got there, the People both French and
Indians were very thick by the Water-Side;

*Probably they embarked nearly opposite Ticonderoga,
at about the present Larrabee's Point.

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two of the Indians took me out of the Canoe,
and leading me, bid me run, which we did; it
was about twenty Rods from the Fort; the
Fort is large, built with Stone & Lime; they
led me up to the third Loft, where was the
Captain's Chamber; a Chair was bro't that I
might fet by the Fire and warm me. Soon
after the Indians that I belonged to, and others
that were there, came into the Chamber,
among whom was one I knew, named Peal-
tomy- he came and fpake to me, and fhook
Hands with me; and I was glad to fee him:
He went out, but foon return'd and brought
to me another Indian named Amrufus* Huf-
band to Mrs. Eunice Williams, Daughter of
the late Rev. Mr. Williams^ of Deer field' he
was glad to fee me, and I to fee him. He
afked me after his Wife's Relations, and

*Bunice Williams, born on September 16th, 1696,
daughter of Rev. John Williams, of Deerfield, Mass., was
carried captive to Canada in 1704. She remained there
and married an Indian, assumed Indian habits, and forgot
what English she had known. In Canada she died at the
age of about ninety years. The Rev. Eleazer Williams, her
great-grandson, stated that she married an Indian by the
name of De Rogers, but I believe How is nearer the truth,
since De Rogers may have been phonetically misunderstood
for Amrusus. — Williams Genealogy. Greenfield, 1847, pp.
92, ff.

tRev. John Williams, first minister of Deerfield, was
captured there by French and Indians on February 29th,
1703-4. He was carried into captivity to Canada; was
redeemed, and left Quebec on October 25th, 1706, for Boston,
where he arrived on November 21st. He published an
account of his captivity, namely, The Redeemed Captive,
Returning to Zion. Boston: B. Green, 1707. A second
edition was printed during his lifetime, and there have
been many editions since.

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fhew'd a great deal of Refpect to me. A
while after this, the Indians fat in a Ring in
the Chamber, and Pealtomy came to me, and
told me, I muft go fing and dance before the
Indians; I told him, I could not: He told
me over fome Indian Words, and bid me fing
them: I told him, I could not. With that
the reft of the Fort who could fpeak fome
Englifh came to me, & bid me fing it in Eng-
lifh, which was, I don't know where I go\
which I did, dancing round that Ring three
Times ; and then I fat down by the Fire : The
Prieft came to me, and gave me a Dram of
Rum; after that the Captain brought me Part
of a Loaf of Bread and a Plate of Butter, and
afk'd me [8] to eat, which I did heartily; for
I had not eaten any Bread from the Time I
was taken till then. The French Prieft and
all the Officers fhew'd me a great deal of
Refpect: The Captain gave me a Pair of
good Buckfkin Shoes, the Prieft fix'd them on
my Feet; and we ftay'd there that Night;
where I flept with the Prieft, Captain &
Lieut: The Lieutenant's Name was Ballock*
he had been a Prifoner at Bofton, and had
been at Northampton and the Towns there-
abouts. This Day, which was the Sabbath, I
was well treated by the French Officers with
Victuals and Drink: We tarried there 'till
Noon, then went off about a Mile, and put on

*No doubt this refers to Sieur de Beaulac, "a reformed
lieutenant," who commanded at Fort Chambly in 1746. —
N. Y. Col. Docs., vol. x, p. 36.

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Shore; where they ftay'd the reft of the Day,
and having Rum with them, moft of them
were much Liquor'd. Pealtomy and his
Squaw, and another Indian Family went with
us, and by them I found out that Wm. Phips*
kill'd an Indian, befides that wet wounded be-
fore he was kill'd, for an Indian who was with
us, afk'd me, if there was one kill'd near our
Fort laft Summer? I told him, I did not
know: He faid he had a Brother went out
then, and had not feen him fince, and that he
had heard he was kill'd at our Fort, and
wanted to know if it was true : But I did not
think it beft to tell him any fuch Thing was
fufpected.

But the Indians now got into a Frolick and
quarel'd about me; they made me fet in the
Canoe by the Water-fide: I was afraid they
would hurt if not kill me: They attempted
to come to me, but the fober Indians hinder'd
them that were in Liquor. Pealtomy feeing
the Rout went to the Fort, and foon after
Lieut. Ballock, with fome Soldiers, came to us,
[9] and when the Indians were made eafy,
they went away : We lodg'd there that Night,
and the next Day was a ftormy Day of Wind

*William Phips was one of the original settlers of the
Great Meadow (Putney, Vt). He was captured by the
Indians on July 5th, 1745, while hoeing in his corn-field at
the south-west corner of the meadow, and he was butchered
about a half mile from the place, but not without his first
succeeding in killing one of his captors and mortally
wounding another. — Cf. Doolittle's Short Narrative. Bos-
ton, 1750, p. 2; N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. ix, p. 163.

tA misprint in the original for "he."

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Snow & Rain ; fo that we* forc'd to tarry there
that Day and the next Night; in this Time the
Indians continued fetching Rum from the
Fort, and kept half drunk: Here I under-
went fome Hardfhip by ftaying there fo long
in a Storm without Shelter or Blanket. They
had a great Dance that Night, and hung up
David Rugg's Scalp on a Pole, dancing round
it: After they had done, they lay down to
fleep.

The next Morning, which was the tenth
Day from the Time of my being taken, we
went off in a Canoe, and the Night after we
arrivM at the wide LakeJ and there we stay'd
that Night; fome of the Indians went a hunt-
ing, and kill'd a fat Buck-Deer, fo that we had
Victuals plenty, for we had a full Supply of
Bread given us at the Fort at Crown-Point.

The next Morning the Wind being calm,
we fet out about two Hours before Day; foon
after came to a Schooner lying at Anchor,
went on Board, the French treated us very
civilly: 'They gave each of us a Dram of
Rum, and Victuals to eat. As foon as it was
Day we left the Schooner, & two Hours before
Sun-fet got over the Lake, & next Day came
to Shamballee,i where we met 300 French
and 200 Indians, who did the Mifchief at &

*The omission of "were" is so in the original.

tLake Champlain.

JFort Chambly, named from Jacques de Chambly,
founder of the seigniory of Chambly. How's form is merely
one of several phonetical spellings which are numerous in
the documents.

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about Mr. Lydius^ Fort.* I was taken out
of the Canoe by two Frenchmen, and fled to
a Houfe about ten Rods off as faft as I could
run, the Indians flinging Snow-Balls at me.
As foon as I got to the Houfe, the Indians
ftood round me very thick, and bid me fing &
dance; which I did with [10] them, in their
Way, then they gave a Shout, and left off. Two
of them came to me, one of whom fmote me on
one Cheek, to'thert on the other, which made
the Blood run plentifully. Then they bid me
fing and dance again, which I did with them,
and they with me, fhouting as before. Then
two French Men took me under each Arm,
and run fo faft that the Indians could not keep
up with us to hurt me: We ran about 40
Rods to another Houfe; where a Chair was
bro't for me to fet down: The Houfe was
foon full of French & Indians, and round the
Houfe they were looking in at the Windows.
A French Gentleman came to me, took me by
the Hand, and led me into a fmall Room,
where none came in but fuch as he admitted:
He gave me Victuals and Drink: Several
French Gentlemen and Indians came in, and
were civil to me. The Indians who came in,
could fpeak Englifh; they fhook Hands with
me, calPd me, Brother. They told me they
were all Soldiers, and were going to New-

*Fort Edward, often called Fort Lydius, after John
Henry Lydius, who was governor there for many years.
tA vagary for "t'other."

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England: They faid, they fhould go to my
Town ; which was a great Damp to my Spirit,
'till I heard of their Return, where they had
been, and what they had done. A while after
this, the Indians whom I belonged to, came to
me, and told me we muft go; which we did;
and after going down the River about two
Miles, we came to the thickeft of the Town,
where was a large Fort built with Stone and
Lime, & very large and fine Houfes in it;
where was the General of the Army I fpake
of before: He afked me, what News from
London and Bofton] I told him fuch as I tho't
convenient, and omitted the reft; and then
[11] went down to the Canoes, when fome of
the Indians went and got a plenty of Bread &
Beef, which they put into the Canoes, and then
we went into a French Houfe, where we had
a good Supper: There came in feveral French
Gentlemen to fee me, who were civil to me;
one of them gave me a Crown Sterl. We
lodg'd there 'till about two Hours before Day,
when we arofe, and went down the River;*
I fuppofe we went a Hundred Milest that
Day, which bro't us into the great River call'd
Quebec-River' we lodg'd that Night in a
French Houfe, and were civilly treated.

The next Day we went down the River, and
I was carried before the Governour there,

*The Sorel River, also called Richelieu and Chambly.
tEvidently an exaggeration, unless the distance includ-
ed the Sorel and part of the St. Lawrence.

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which was the Sabbath, and the i6th Day
after my being taken. We ftay'd there about
three Hours, and were well treated by the
French ; and then the Indians were order'd to
carry me down to Quebeck\ which was 90
Miles further: We went down the River
about three Miles that Night; then went
afhore, and lodg'd the remainder of the Night.

The next Morning we fet off, and the
fecond Day which was the i8th from the Time
I was taken, we arrived at Quebec. The Land
is inhabited on both Sides the River from the
Lake to Quebec, which is at leaft two Hun-
dred Miles, but efpecially from Shamballe
very thick, fo that the Houfes are within Sight
of one another all the Way.

But to return; after we arrived at Quebec,
I was carried up into a large Chamber which
was full of Indians, who were civil to me:
Many of the French came in to fee me, and
were very kind to me: I [12] ftay'd there
about two Hours, when a French Gentleman
who could fpeak good Englifh came in and
told me, I muft go with him to the Governour ;
which I did; and after anfwering to a great
many Queftions,* and treated with as much
Bread & Wine as I defired, I was fent with
an Officer to the Guard Houfe, and led into
a fmall Room, where was an Englifh-Man

*The nature of the questions and How's replies are
given in Collection de Manuscrits relatifs a la Nouvelle-
France, vol. iii, pp. 268-270.

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named William Stroud, a Kinfman of the
Hon. Judge Lynde's in New-England: He
belong'd to South-Carolina, and had been at
Quebec fix Years, whom the Governour kept
confin'd for fear he fhou'd leave them and go
to New-England, and difcover their Strength :
Mr. Stroud and I were kept in the Guard-
Houfe one Week, with a Sufficiency of Food
and Drink: The French Gentlemen kept
coming in to fee me, & was very civilly treated
by them: I had the better Opportunity of
difcourfing with them as Mr. Stroud was a
good Interpreter.

After this we were fent to Prifon, where I
found one James ' Kinlade* who was taken 14
Days before I was, at Sheepfcot at the Eaft-
ward in New-England: I was much pleafed
with^his Converfation, ef teeming him a Man
of true Piety: We were kept in Prifon eight
Days, with Liberty to keep in the Room with
the Prifon-keeper. We were daily vifited
by Gentlemen and Ladies, who fhew'd us
great Ki'ndnefs, in giving us Money and other
Things, and a pleafant Behaviour towards us;
bleffed be God therefor, for I def ire to afcribe
all the Favours I have been the Partaker of
ever fince my Captivity, to the abundant

*Kincaid, Kinkead or Kinkhead is of Gaelic origin,
and in Scotland is written Kincade. He was captured on
September 27th, 1745. His deposition to the French is
printed in Coll de MSS. relatifs d la N.-F., vol. iii, pp. 261-
262.

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Grace & Goodnefs of a bountiful God, as the
firft Caufe.

[13] After this, Mr. Kinlade and I were
fend* to another Prifon, where were 22 Sea-
men belonging to feveral Parts of our King's
Dominions, three of them Captains of Veffels,
viz James Southerland^ of Cape-Cod, Wil-
liam ChipmarA of Marblehead, William
Pote§ of Caj 'co-Bay; this Prifon was a large
.House built with Stone & Lime two Feet thick,
and about 120 Feet long. We had two large
Stoves in it, & Wood enough, fo that we could
keep ourfelves warm in the coldeft Weather.
We had Provifion fufficient, viz. two Pound
of good Wheat Bread, one Pound of Beef, and
Peas anfwerable, to each Man ready drefs'd
every day.ll

When I had been there a few Days the
Captives defir'd me to lead them in carrying

*So printed in the original.

tJames Sutherland, commander of the schooner Sea-
flower. He was captured in Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia,
with Captain William Pote, Jr., and the full details are
recorded in the Journal of the latter.

^William Chapman was captured with his brigantine
while "Bound from Maryland to London," on May 24th,
1745. — Pote's Journal, p. 80.

§His personal history is given in the appendix to his
newly-found journal, edited by me for Bishop John P.
Hurst.— The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr., during
his Captivity in the French and Indian War from May,
1745, to August, 1747. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company,
1896. 8vo, pp. xxxvii+223, with Charles Morris's map of
1749. In this work I have recorded the personal history of
nearly all the captives referred to in How's pamphlet.

IIHow was brought to this prison on Sunday, November
17th, 1745.

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on Morning and Evening Devotion, which I
was willing to do: We had a Bible, a Pf aim-
Book, and fome other good Books; our con-
ftant Practice was to read a Chapter in the
Bible, and fing Part of a Pfalm, and to pray,
Night and Morning.

When I was at the firft Prifon I was ftript
of all my old and loufey Cloaths, and had
other Cloathing given me from Head to Foot,
and had many Kindneffes fhewn me by thofe
that liv'd thereabouts, more efpecially by one
Mr. Corby and his Wife, who gave me Money
there, and brought me many good Things at
the other Prifon. But here I was taken ill,
as was alfo moft of the other Prifoners, with a
Flux, which lafted near a Month, fo that I
was grown very weak, but after that I was
healthful, thro' divine Goodnefs, bleffed be
God for it: I was much concern'd for my
Country, efpecially for the Place I was taken
from, [14] by Reafon that I met an Army
going thither, as they told me : The ayth Day
of November* we had News come to the
Prifon that they were come back to Shamballe,
and had taken upwards of a Hundred Cap-
tives, which increas'd my Concern, for I ex-
pected our Fort, & others thereabouts, were
deftroy'd, which put me upon earneft Prayer
to God, that he would give me Grace to fubmit

"This information supplies a partial gap in Pole's
Journal. It refers to the attack on Saratoga, the present
Schuylerville, on the night of November 28 and 29 (new
style), 1745.

42 HO WS NARRA TIVE

to his Will; after which I was eafy in my
Mind.

About a Fortnight after,* a Dutchman was
bro't to Prifon, who was one of the Captives
the f aid Army had taken ; he told me they had
burnt Mr. Ly dins' s Fort, and all the Houfes
at that new Townfhip, and had kill'd Capt.
Schylerf and five or fix more, and had brought
50 Whites and about 60 Negroes to Montreal:
I was forry to hear of fo much Mifchief done,
but rejoyc'd they had not been upon our River
and the Towns thereabouts ; for which I gave
Thanks to God for his great Goodnefs in pre-
ferving them, and particularly my Family.

When Chriftmas came,t the Governour fent
us 24 Livres ; the Lord-Intendant came into
the Prifon and gave us 24 Livres more, which
was about two Guineas : He told us he hop'd
we fhould be fent Home in a little Time; he
was a pleafant Gentleman, and very kind to
the Captives: Some time after Mr. Shearly§
a Gentleman of Quality came to us, and gave
to the three Sea Captains 24 Livres, and to me
twelve, and the next Day fent me a Bottle of
Claret Wine. About ten Days after he fent

*December llth (old style).— Pote, p. 85.

tApparently Capt. Nicholas Schuyler is meant, but he
was not killed.

IThe Canadians of course celebrated Christmas eleven
days earlier than the New Englanders, or according to
"new style." — Cf. Pote, p. 85, under date of December 15th.

§M. de Chalet, interpreter of the King. This visit was
made on January 10th, 1745-6.— Cf. Pote, p. 85.

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me twelve Livres more; it was in all eight
Pounds old Tenor.

[15] January 2Oth 1745, 6. Eighteen Cap-
tives* were brought from Montreal to the
Prifon at Quebec, which is 180 Miles.

February 22. Seven Captives more who
were taken at Albany^ were brought to the
Prifon to us, viz. fix Men and one old Woman
70 Years old, who had been fo infirm for
feven Years paft, fhe had not been able to
walk the Streets, yet perform'd this tedious
Journey with Eafe.

March 15. One of the Captives taken at
Albany after 14 or 15 Days Sicknefs died in
the Hofpital at Quebec, a Man of a fober
pious Converfation, his Name was Lawrence
Plafjer,\ a German born.

May 3d 1746. Three Captives taken at
Number Four, fixteen Miles above where I
was taken, viz. Capt. John Spafford, Ifaac
Parker, and Stephen Farnfworth, were
brought to Prifon to us; who informed me
my Farnily was well a few Days before they
were taken, which rejoyc'd me much. I was
forry for the Misfortune of thefe my Friends,
but was glad of their Company, and of their

"They were among those whom Lieutenant Marln had
taken captive at Saratoga. — Pote, p. 86.

tSaratoga is correct.

iDuring the many months in which captives had been
confined in this prison, none had died. Lawrence Platter
or Plater, according to Norton, p. 30, and Pote, p. 165, was
the first to succumb to illness. He also was captured at
Saratoga.

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being well ufed by thofe who took them : Let
God have the Praife.

May 14. Two Captives were brought into
Prifon, viz. Jacob Read and Edward Clout-
man, taken at a new Townfhip called Gorham-
Town near Caj 'co-Bay. They inform'd us that
one Man, and four Children of one of them
were kill'd and his Wife taken at the fame
Time with them, & was in the Hands of
Indians.*

May 1 6. Two lads, viz. James & Samuel
Anderfon, Brothers, taken at Sheepfcot were
bro't to Prifon.

May 17. Samuel Burbank & David Wood-
well, who were taken at New-Hopkington
near Rumford, were [16] brought to Prifon,
and inform'd us, there were taken with them
two Sons of the faid Burbank, and the Wife,
two Sons and a Daughter of the faid Wood-
well, whom they left in the Hands of the
Indians. t

May 24. Thomas Jones of Hollifton, who
was a Soldier at Contocook, was brought to
Prifon, and told us, that one Eltfha Cook, and
a Negro belonging to the Rev Mr. Stevens,
were kill'd, when he was taken.t

June i. William Aikings§ taken at Pleaf-

*William Bryant and family. See names and details
in Pote's Journal, pp. 88, 97, 104, 117.
tCompare Pote's Journal, pp. 89, 90.
JFuller details are given in Pote, p. 90.
§William Akins — Pote, p. 90.

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ant Point near George's Fort was brought
alfo to Prifon.

June 2. Mr Shearly* brought feveral
Letters of Deacon Timothy Brown's of Lower-
Afhuelots^ and Money, and deliver'd them to
me; which made us think he was kill'd or
taken. A few Days after, Mr. Shearly told
me he was taken : I was glad to hear he was
alive.

June 6. Timothy Cumin gs^- aged 60 was
bro't to Prifon, who informed us, he was at
Work with five other Men, about 40 Rods
from the Block-Houfe at George^s, when five
Indians fhot at them, but hurt none. The
Men ran away and left him & their Guns to
the Indians; he told us that the Enfign was
kill'd as he ftood on the Top of the Fort, and
that the Englifh kill'd five Indians at the fame
Time.

June 13. Mr. Shearly bro't to the Cap-
tives fome Letters which were fent from Al-
bany, and among them one from Lieut Gov-
ernour1 Phipps of the Maffachufetts-Bay, to
the Governour of Canada, for the Exchange
of Prifoners, which gave us great Hopes of
a fpeedy Releafe.

June 22. Eight Men were brought to
Prifon, among whom was Deacon Brown and

*De Chalet.

tNow Swanzey, N. H.

JTimothy Cummings.

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Robert Morfe* [17] who inform me there
was fix or eight Indians kill'd a little before
they were taken at Upper-Afhuelots, and that
they learnt by the Indians who took them,
there were fix more of the Englifh kill'd at
other Places near Connecticut-River ; & fev-
eral more much wounded; thefe laft, were
fuppos'd to be the Wife and Children of the
aforefaid Burbank and Woodwell.

July 5. We fent a Petition to the chief
Governor that we might be exchang'd; and
the yth Mr. Shearly told us we fhould be
exchang'd for other Captives in a little Time;
which caus'd great Joy among us : The fame
Day at Night John Beman of Northfield was
bro't to Prifon, who told us, that an Expedi-
tion againft Canada wras on Foot, which much
rejoyc'd us: He alfo told us of the three
Fights at Number Four, and who were kill'd
& taken ; and of Mifchief done in feveral other
Places near Connecticut-River; and that my
Brother Daniel How's Son Daniel was taken
with him. and was in the Hands of Indians,
who defsign'd to keep him.t

July 20. John Jones a Seaman was brought
into Prifon, who told us he was going from

*Deacon Timothy Brown and Robert Moffat— Potc,
p. 91.

tJohn Beaumont, Beaman or Bement and Daniel How
were captured during an attack upon a number of men at
work in the meadow at Bridgman's fort, on the site of Ver-
non, Vermont. — Cf. Pote, pp. 91, 92.

HOWS NARRATIFE 47

Cape-Breton to Newfoundland with one Eng-
lifhman, and four Frenchmen who had fworn
Allegiance to King George, and in the Paf-
fage kill'd the other Englifhman, but carried
him to the Bay of Arb, where there was an
Army of French and Indians, to whom they
delivered him; and by them was fent to Que-
bec.

July 21. John Richards and a Boy of nine
or ten Years old, who belonged to Rochefter
in New-Hampfhire, were brought to Prifon,
and told us, there were four Englifhmen kill'd
when they were taken.*

[18] Auguft 15. Seven Captives, who with
eight more taken at St. John's Ifland, were
bro't to Prifon, and told us, that feveral were
kill'd after Quarters were given, among whom
was James Owen late of Brookfield in New-
England.^

Auguft 16. Thomas Jones late of Sher-
burne in New-England, after 7 or 8 Days
Sicknefs died: He gave good Satisfaction as
to his future State.

Auguft 25. We had at Canada a Squal of
Snow.

September 12. Robert Downing who had
been a Soldier at Cape-Breton, and was taken
at St. John's, and who was with the Indians

*For a full account see Pote, p. 93.
fFor their names and the circumstances of their cap-
ture, see Pote, p. 93.

tPote calls him "Rob*- Dewen."

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two Months, and fufferM great Abufe from
them, was brought to Prifon.

September 15. Twenty-three of the Cap-
tives taken at Hoofuck-Fort* were brought to
Prifon, among whom was the Reverend Mr.
John Norton: They inform us, that after
fighting 26 Hours with 800 French and In-
dians, they furrendered themfelves on Capitu-
lation Prif oners of War : They alf o informed
us, that Thomas Nation^ and Jofiah Read\
were kill'd when they were taken. The Names
of thofe now brought in Prifoners, are as fol-
lows, viz. The Rev. Mr. John Norton, John
Hawks, John Smeed, his Wife and fix Child-
ren, John Perry and his Wife, Mofes Scot his
Wife and two Children, Samuel Goodman,
Jonathan Bridgman, Nathan Ernes. § Jofcph
Scot, Amos Pratt, Benjamin Sinconds, Samuel
Lbvet, David Warren, and Phineas Furbufh :\\

*Fort Massachusetts, in the present town of Adams,
Berkshire County, Mass. The best contemporary account
of its surrender is contained in Rev. John Norton's The
Redeemed Captive, Being a Narrative Of the taking and
carrying into Captivity The Reverend Mr. John Norton
When Fort Massachusetts Surrendered to a large Body of
French and Indians Aug. 20th, 17^6. Boston, 1748. It was
reprinted, by Samuel G. Drake in 1870.

tThomas Knowlton was shot through the head on the
morning of August 20th, before the fort surrendered, "so
that some of his brains came out, yet life remained in him
for some hours." — Norton, p. 8.

iJosiah Reed had a "long and tedious sickness" at the
time of the surrender, and "either died of his illness, or
else was killed by the enemy," on the following night. —
Norton, pp. 12, 14.

INathan Barnes.

||Phinehas Forbush.

HOWS NARRATIVE 49

The two laft of thefe inform me, that my
Brother Daniel How's Son was taken from the
Indians, and lives with a French Gentleman at
Montreal. There were four Captives more
taken at Albany the laft Summer brought to
Prifon the fame Day.*

[19] September 26. Seventy-four Men and
two Women taken at Sea were brought to
Prifon.t

October I. Jacob Shepardi of Wef thor-
ough, taken at Hoofuck, was brought to Prif-
on.

Octob. 3. Jonath. Batherick§ was bro't to
Prifon.

October 5. Seventeen Men were brought
to Prifon, three of them taken with Mr. Nor-
ton & others, viz. Nath. Hitchcock, John
Aldrick,\\ and Stephen Scot : Richard Subes^
who was taken at Ne<w-Cafco, fays, one Man
was kill'd at the fame Time: Alfo Pike

*Pote records the advent of the four from Albany,
under date, of September 24th.

tThey were a part of the prisoners captured by the
French vessels, Le Castor and L'Aurore. — Pote's Journal,
pp. 96-97.

t Jacob Shepherd was captured at Fort Massachusetts;
was "a pious young man, well beloved," and died in cap-
tivity on May 30th, 1747. — Pote, pp. 98, 136; Norton, p. 39.

§This is an error. His name was Jonathan Donham
or Dunham, a soldier, captured with Pote on May 17th,
1745. He died on November 28th, 1746, after an illness of
eight or ten days, of inflammation of the lungs. — Pote, p. 98.

1 1 John Aldrich. — Norton, p. 29.

URichard Stubs, who was captured August 26th, 1746. —
Pote, p. 98.

50 HOW'S NARRATIVE

Goo Jen* taken at Saco, was bro't to Prifon;
he alfo fays, he had a Brother kill'd at the
fame Time.

October 12. 24 Seamen were bro't to Prif-
on.t

October 19. Six Seamen were brought to
Prifon.t

October 20. Jacob Read died.

October 23. Edward Cloutman and Rob-
ert Dunbar broke Prifon, and went for New-
England.

October 27. A Man was brought to Prif-
on, and fays, the Indians took five more, and
brought ten Scalps to Montreal.

Nov. i. John Read died.

Nov. 9. John Davis taken with Mr. Nor-
man died.

Nov. 17. Nathan Eames of Marlborough
died.

Nov. 19. Mr. Adamsl taken at Sheepfcot
was bro't to Prifon, and fays that James An-
derfon's Father was kill'd, and his Uncle tak-
en at the fame Time.

Nov. 20. Leonard Lydle & the Widow
Sarah Briant, were married in Canada by the
Reverend Mr. Norton.

*Pike Gordon, son of Joseph Gordon, of Saco. — Pote,
p. 106.

tThey were another installment of prisoners captured
by the vessels Le Castor and L'Aurore.

JThese belonged to the same as in preceding note.
§Robert Adams. — Pote, p. 103; Norton, p. 32.

HOW'S NARRATIVE 51

Nov. 22. The above faid Anderfon's Uncle
was brought to Prifon.*

Nov. 24. John BradfhaiVj who had not
been well for moft of the Time he had been a
Prifoner died.

[20] It is a very melancholy Time with us;
there are now thirty fick, and Deaths among
us daily.

Nov. 28. Jonathan Dunham died.

Nov. 29. Capt. Bailey^ of Almfbury died.

Dec. i. An Albany Mant died.

Dec. 6. Pike Goodenl died, and we have
Reafon to think he made a happy Change.

Dec. 7. A GirlH of ten Year's of Age died.

Dec. 1 1 . Mofes Scot's Wif elf died.

Dec. 15. One of Capt. Roberfon's Lieu-
tenants died.**

Dec. 1 8. Daniel Woodwelf* Wife died;tt
fhe was efteem'd a pious Woman, and we be-
lieve made a happy Change.

*Capt. John McNear. — Pote, pp. 101, 104.

tCapt. William Bagley is undoubtedly the correct
name. — Pote, p. 105; Norton, p. 33.

tGeret Vanderverick. — Pote, pp. 105, 165. Cf. also Nor-
ton, p. 33.

§Pike Gordon.

||Martha Quackinbush.— Pote, p. 106; Norton, p. 33.

UMiriam Scott.

**John Boon, who belonged to Devonshire, England. He
was an "apprentice" to Capt. David Roberts, captured at
sea, May 1st, 1746, by L'Aurore and Le Castor. — Pote, p.
107; Norton, p. 33.

ttMary, wife of David Woodwell, of New Hopkinton. —
Pote, pp. 90 (note), 107.

52 HOW'S NARRATIVE

Dec. 23. John Perry's Wife died.*

Dec. 26. William Dayly^ of New-York
dy'd hopefully.

Jan. 3. 1746, 7. Jonathan Harthan\ died.

7<2w. 4. The Rev. Mr. Norton was fo fai
recover'd from Sicknefs, tha{t he preach'd
two Difcourfes from Pfal. 60. 11. Give us
help from Trouble, for vain is the help of
Man.

Jan. 12. Twenty Captives were carried to
another Prifon, hoping thereby to cleanfe the
other of the Infection ; the fame Night one of
them died, viz. Phineas Andrews^ of Cape-
Ann.

Jan. 15. Jacob Bailey Brother to Capt.
Bailey aforefaid, died.ll

Jan. 17. Giat Brabant Capt Chapman's
Carpenter died.

Jan. 23. Samuel Lovet Son of Major Lovet
of Mendon in New -En gland died.

February 10. William Garivafs** died, as
did alfo Mofes Scot's youngeft Child.tt

*Rebecah Perry. On November 5th, 1748, John Perry
represented his losses at the time of his capture, in a peti-
tion to the Bay government, which is preserved in Mass.
Archives, vol. 73, p. 246.

tDaly, according to Pote, and spelled Daily by Norton.

IPote and Norton give his name respectively as Hoga-
don and Hogadorn.

§Francis Andrews. — Pote, p. 109; Norton, p. 34.

||Jacob Bagley.

IfGuy Braband. — Pote, p. 110; Guyart Brabbon. — Nor-
ton, p. 34.

**"William Galboath, a Scots-man."— Norton, p. 35.

ttAlso named Moses Scott, and about two years of age.
— Norton, p. 35.

HOWS NARRATIVE 53

Feb. 15. My Nephew Daniel How and
fix more [21] were brought down from Mon-
treal to Quebec, viz. John Sunderland, John
Smith, Richard Smith, William Scot, Philip
Scoffil, and Benjamin Tainter, Son to Lieut.
Tainter of Weftborough in New-England.

Febr. 23. Richard Bennet died.

Feb. 25. Michal Dugon* died.

March 1 8. James Margra\ died.

March 22. Capt. /O/ZTZ For/ & 5am. Good-
man died.

M0rc/r 28. 1747. The Wife* of John
Smeed, died, who left fix Children, the young-
eft of which was born the fecond Night after
the Mother was taken.

April 7. Philip Scaffield died.

April 8. John Saneld§ died.

April 9. Capt. James Jordan & one of his
Menll died.

April 1 2. Amos Pratt of Shrewsbury died.

April 14. Timothy Cummings died.

yf^riV 17. /O/ZH DiV/ of Huin in
England died.

* Spelled Dugan by Pote, and Dogan by Norton.

t James Megraw. — Pote, p. 166; "Thomas Magra, an
Irishman." — Norton, p. 35.

tMary Smeed. For the tragical history of the Smeed
or Smead family, see Pote, p. 115 (note).

§John Smeed, son of John Smeed is meant. — Pote, p.
116.

1 1 Antonio, a Portuguese sailor. — Pote, p. 116; Norton,
p. 36.

HNorton, p. 36, says he "belonged to Nantaskett."

54 HOWS NARRATIVE

April 1 8. Samuel Venhon* of Plimouth
died.

April 26. Capt. Jonathan Williamson was
brought to Prifon; he was taken at a new
Town on Sheep-cot River.

April 26. Three Men were brought to
Prifon, who were taken at Albany three Weeks
before, and tell us, that thirteen were kill'd,
Capt. Trent one of them, they were all Sol-
diers for the Expedition to Canada.

April 27. Joseph Denox^ died.

April 28. Samuel Evans died. The fame
Night the Prifon took Fire, and was burnt,t
but the Things therein were moftly faved:
We were kept that Night under a Guard.

May 7. Sarah Lydle whofe Name was
Briant when fhe was taken, and married while
a Captive, died.

[22] May 13. Mr. Smeed^s Son Daniel
died.

May 14. Christian Fether§ died. The
fame Day died Mr. Hezekiah Huntington, a
hopeful Youth of a liberal Education, Son to
Col. Huntington\\ of Connecticut, in New-
England.

May 15. Joseph Gray died.

*Samuel Vaughan is the correct name. — Pote, p. 118.

t Joseph Denen. — Pote, p. 118; Norton says, "Joseph
Denning of Cape Ann."

iPote gives a detailed account of the fire. — Journal,
pp. 122-125.

§Chriatian Vedder. Pote spells his name "Vader,"
and Norton gives it as "Tedder."

[(Deacon Hezekiah Huntington, of Norwich, Conn.

HOW'S NARRATIVE 55

May 19. Samuel Burbanks* died. At the
fame Time died two Childrent who were put
out to the French to Nurfe.

At that Time I received a Letter from
Major Willard, dated March 17. 1747, where-
in he informs me, my Family was well ; which
was joyful News to me.

May 19. Abraham Forti- died.

*Samuel Burbank, of New Hopkinton.
fOne of these was Captivity Smeed, aged about nine
months. She died, May 17th or 18th.
tHe was a brother of John Fort.

56 HOW'S NARRATIVE

By another Hand.

MAY 25, 1747. This Day died Mr. Jfrljmutl?
if0W, in the Hofpital at Quebec in Cana-
da, in the 55th Year of his Age ; who had
been a Captive there one Year, feven Months,
and fifteen Days : He enjoy' d his Health 'till
about the middle of this Month: He was a
loving Hufband, and a tender Father; greatly
belov'd by his Brethren and Sifters, and in-
deed by every One who was acquainted with
him: Mr. How was a Perfon who had be-
hav'd himfelf as a Chriftian from his Youth.
His Death is a great Lofs to his Friends; but
I believe a Gain to himfelf; and that he is
gone from a Captivity of Sorrow on Earth,
to join in Songs of everlafting Joy among the
Ranfom'd of the Lord in the heavenly Zion.

HOW'S NARRATIVE

[23] The Names of the Subfcribers, with
the Places of their Abode, to the foregoing
Narrative, with the Number of Books fub-
fcribed for.

Worcester.

The Hon. John Chandler, Efq; Six Books.

Major Daniel Howard, fix Books.

Mr. Thomas Wheeler, fix Books.

Mr. John Curtifs, fix Books.

Concord, The Hon. James Minot, Efq;

fix Books.

Mr. Thomas Munrow, fix Books.
Mr. Henry Flint, fix Books.

Bofton, Mr. Jonas Leonard, fix Books.
Mr. John Burbeeen [sic]

fix Books.

Rutland, ' Capt. Jofeph Stevens, fix Books.
Capt. Edward Rice, fix Books,
Mr. Mofes Leonard, fix Books.
Mr. Andrew Henry, fix Books.
Mr. Thomas Flint, fix Books.
Mr. Nathan Stone, fix Books.
Mr. James Calwell, fix Books.
Mr. Jofeph Houlton, fix Books.
Mr. Aaron Rofs, fix Books.

Capt. John Hubbard, fix Books.

58 HOW'S NARRATIVE

Rutland, Mr. Edward Savage, fix Books.

Mr. Eliphalet How, fix Books.

Mr. Jonas Stone, fix Books.

Mr. Daniel Davis, three Books.

Mr. Ifrael How, fix Books.

Mr. Benjamin Willard,i\x Books.

Mr. Skelten Felton, fix Books.

Deacon Eleazer Ball, fix Books.

Mr. Mofes How, feven Books.
[24] Lancaster, Samuel Willard, Efq;

fix Books.

Mr. Joshua Hide, fix Books.
Cambridge, William Brattle, Efq; fix Books.

Edmund Goffe, Efq ; fix Books-
Stoughton, John Shepard, Efq; fix Books.
ShrewfburyjMr. Daniel Willard, feven Books.
Hartford, Mr. Edward Cadwell, Jun.

fix Books.

Brimfieldf Mr. Daniel Burt, fix Books.
Sturbridge, Capt. Mofes Marfey, fix Books.
Norton, Capt. Jonathan Lawrence,

feven Books.
Sudbury, Mr. Ifaac Baldwin, fix Books.

Mr. David How, fix Books.

Mr. Ezekiel How, fix Books.
Brookfield, Oliver Hay ward, Efq ; fix Books.

Mr. Ebenezer How, fix Books.

Mr. Abner Brown, fix Books.
Uxbridge, John Harwood, Efq; fix Books.
Upton, Mr. Jonathan Wood, fix Books.

Woodftock, Mr. 7o/V/>/z Chaff e, Jun.

fix Books.

HOW'S NARRATIVE 59

Mendon, Mr. William Rawfon, Jun.

fix Books.

Toivnfhend, Mr. Timothy Heald, fix Books.
LeicefteT) Mr. Oliver Witt, five Books.

Marlboro\ Mr. Ephraim Bridgham,

fix Books.

Springfield, Mr. Lz/££ Stebbins, fix Books.
Mr. Nathaniel Ely, fix Books.

INDEX

ABENAKIS of St. Francis, cap-
ture Nehemiah How on Great
Meadow, 10.

Adams, Robert, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 50, 50 note.

Adams, Berkshire County, Mass.,
site of Fort Massachusetts, 15;
captives from, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 47, 49, 49 note;
depredation at Fort Massachu-
setts, 48, 48 note.

Aikings, William. See Akins.

Akins, William, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 44-45.

Albany, N. Y., 43, 45, 49, 49 note,
51, 54.

Aldrich, John, brought to prison
at Quebec, 49.

Alexander, Bbenezer, captain,
marches with company to pro-
tect frontiers near Great Mead-
ow, 9.

Almsbury, perhaps an error for
Newbury, Mass., 51.

Amrusus, Indian, husband of
Eunice Williams, visits How at
Crown Point, 32, 32 note.

Anderson, Sr., James, father of
James and Samuel, killed, 50.

Anderson, Jr., James, brought to
prison at Quebec, 44; his fath-
er killed, 50; Capt. John Mc-
Near his uncle, 50, 51, 51 note.

Anderson, Samuel, brought to
prison at Quebec, 44.

Andrews, Francis, dies in prison
at Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Andrews, Phineas. See Andrews,
Francis.

Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia,
vessels captured in, 40 note.

Antonio, a Portuguese, dies in
prison at Quebec, 53, 53 note.

BAGLEY, Jacob, dies in prison at
Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Bagley, William, captain, dies in
prison at Quebec, 51, 51 note;
his brother dies at Quebec, 52.

Bailey, Jacob. See Bagley.

Bailey, William, captain. See
Bagley.

Baker, Robert, settles at Great
Meadow, 8; narrowly escapes
death by Indians, 12, 28.

Baldwin, Isaac, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Ball, Eleazer, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

Ballock, Lieut. See Beaulac,
Sieur de.

Batherick, Jonathan. See Don-
ham.

Bay of Arb, army of French and
Indians at, 47.

Beaman, John. See Bement.

Beaulac, Sieur de, French lieu-
tenant at Fort Chambly, a pris-
oner at Boston, 33; at Crown
Point, 33; subdues boisterous-
ness of drunken Indians, 34.

Beaumont, John. See Bement.

Beman, John. See Bement.

Bement, John, brought to prison
at Quebec, 46; account of, 46
note.

Bennet, Richard, dies in prison
at Quebec, 53.

62

INDEX

Bent, Martha. See How, Martha
(Bent). i

Black River, Vermont, 12; locat-
ed, 29 note.

Boon, John, apprentice to Capt.
David Roberts, dies in prison
at Quebec, 50, 51 note.

Boscawen, N. H., formerly Con-
toocook, soldier from, brought
to prison at Quebec, 44.

Boston, Mass., 57; How's tract
printed originally at, 17, 25;
Rev. John Williams returns
from captivity to, 32; Sieur
de Beaulac, French lieutenant,
prisoner at, 33; How inter-
viewed concerning news from,
37.

Braban, Giat. See Braband, Guy.

Braband, Guy, dies in prison at
Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Brabbon, Guy art. See Braband,
Guy.

Bradshaw, John, dies in prison
at Quebec, 51.

Brattle, William, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Briant, Sarah. See Lydle, Sarah.

Bridgman, Ephraim, original
subscriber for How's tract, 59.

Bridgman, Jonathan, brought to
prison at Quebec, 48.

Bridgman's Fort. See Vernon, Vt.

Brimfield, Mass., 58.

Brinley, George, his copy of
How's tract in New York Pub-
lic Library, 16.

Brookfield, Mass., 47, 58.

Brown, Abner, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Brown, Timothy, letters from,
delivered to How, 45; brought
to prison at Quebec, 45, 46 note.

Bryant, Sarah. See Lydle, Sarah.

Bryant, William, killed at Gor-
hamtown, 44, 44 note; his wid-
ow married to Leonard Lydle
in prison, 50.

Bryant family, 44, 44 note.

Burbank, Samuel, brought to
prison at Quebec, 44; two sons
of, captured, 44; wife and chil-
dren of, 46; dies in prison, 55.

Burbeen, John, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

Burt, Daniel, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

CADWELL (Caldwell?), Jr., Ed-
ward, original subscriber for
How's tract, 58.

Calwell (Caldwell?), James, orig-
inal subscriber for How's
tract, 57.

Cambridge, Mass., 58.

Canada, 11, 17, 20, 25, 32 note,
47, 50, 54, 56; governor of, re-
ceives letter from Mass., for
exchange of prisoners, 45; pro-
posed expedition against, 46.

Cape Ann, prisoners from, die at
Quebec, 52, 54 note.

Cape Breton, 47.

Cape Cod, Mass., 40.

Casco Bay, Maine, 40, 44.

Chaffe, Jr., Joseph, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Chalet, M. de (written Shearly
by How), interpreter of the
King, visits prisoners at Que-
bec, 42, 42 note, 45, 46.

Chambly, fort, 12, 38, 41; Sieur
de Beaulac commands at, 33
tiote; How and his captors ar-
rive at, 35; number of French
and Indians there in October,
1745, 35-37; origin of name, 35
note; description of, 37.

Chambly River. See Sorel River.

Chandler, John, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

Chapman, William, captain, in
prison at Quebec, 40; account
of, 40 note; his carpenter dies
at Quebec, 52.

INDEX

Charlestown, N. H., formerly
called "No. 4," Indians at, 12,
29; Col. Josiah Willard with
scouting party at, 13; captives
from, brought to prison at Que-
bec, 43; three attacks on, 46.

Christmas, celebrated in prison
at Quebec, 42, 42 note.

Clapp, Sarah (Leavitt). See How,
Sarah (Leavitt) (Clapp).

Cloutman, Jr., Edward, brought
to prison at Quebec, 44; es-
capes from prison, 50.

Concord, Mass., 57. ,

Connecticut, 54.

Connecticut River, 7, 11, 28, 29
note; land-grants in valley of,
8; Indian incursions along val-
ley of, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 46.

Contoocook. See Boscawen, N. M.

Cook, Elisha, killed at Contoo-
cook, now Boscawen, N. H., 44.

Corby, M., he and his wife are
kind to How in prison, 41.

Crisson, Thomas, settles at "No.
2," 8.

Crown Point, fort, 12, 31; des-
cription of, 32; Indians sup-
plied with bread at, 35.

Cummings, Timothy, brought to
prison at Quebec, 45; dies in
prison, 53.

Curtiss, John, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 57.

DAILY, William, dies in prison at
Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Daly, William. See Daily.

Davis, Daniel, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

Davis, John, dies at Quebec, 50.

Dayly, William. See Daily.

De Chalet. See Chalet.

De Rogers. See Amrusus.

Deerfield, Mass., 13; Indian in-
cursion at, in 1704, 32 note;
Rev. John Williams first min-
ister of, 32 note.

Denen, Joseph, dies in prison at
Quebec, 54.

Denning, Joseph. See Denen.

Denox, Joseph. See Denen.

Devonshire, England, 51 note.

Dewen, Robert. See Downing.

Dill, John, dies in prison at Que-
bec, 53.

Dogan, Michael. See Dugan.

Donham, Jonathan, brought to
prison at Quebec, 49, 49 note;
dies at Quebec, 51.

Downing, Robert, also called De-
wen, brought to prison at Que-
bec, 47, 48.

Drake, Samuel Gardiner, esti-
mate of his editorial work,
15, 16.

Dugan, Michael, dies in prison
at Quebec, 53.

Dunbar, Robert, escapes from
prison at Quebec, 50.

Dunham, Jonathan. See Donham.

EAMES, Nathan, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 48, 48 note; dies
at Quebec, 50.

Ely, Nathaniel, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 59.

Ernes, Nathan. See Eames.

Evans, Samuel, dies in prison
at Quebec, 54.

FARNSWORTH, Stephen, brought
to prison at Quebec, 43.

Pelton, Skelten, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Fether, Christian. See Vedder.

Five Years' French and Indian
War, 8; narratives of Indian
Captivities during, 15-17, 40
note.

Flint, Henry, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 57.

Flint, Thomas, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 57.

Forbush, Phinehas, brought to
prison at Quebec, 48, 48 note.

INDEX

Fort, Abraham, dies in prison at
Quebec, 55.

Fort, John, captain, dies in pris-
on at Quebec, 53; his brother
dies in prison, 55, 55 note.

Fort Chambly. See Chambly.

Fort Crown Point. See Crown
Point.

Fort Dummer, 13, 17, 25, 27.

Fort Edward, also called Fort
Lydius, French and Indians
who attacked, at Fort Cham-
bly, 35, 36; its names, 36 note;
depredation at, 42.

Fort Hill, built in the Great
Meadow, at Putney, Vt., 8, 41;
Indians attack, 10, 11, 27;
burned by Indians, 14.

Fort Hinsdale. See Hinsdale's
Fort.

Fort Lydius. See Fort Edward.

Fort Massachusetts. See Adams,
Berkshire County, Mass.

Fort Shattuck. See Shattuck's
Fort.

Fort Ticonderoga, 12, 31 note.

Furbush, Phineas. See Forbush,
Phinehas.

GALBOATH, William, dies in pris-
on at Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Garwafs, William. See Galboath.

George II, Frenchmen swear al-
legiance to, 47.

George's Fort, Maine, 45; cap-
tive from, brought to prison
at Quebec, 45; depredation at,
45.

Goffe, Edmund, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Gooden, Pike. See Gordon.

Goodman, Samuel, brought to
prison at Quebec, 48; dies in
prison, 53.

Gordon, Joseph, father of Pike
Gordon, 50 note.

Gordon, Pike, brought to prison
at Quebec, 50; his brother kill-
ed at Saco, 50; dies at Quebec,
51.

Gorhamtown, Maine, captives
from, brought to prison at Que.
bee, 44.

Grafton, Mass., 8, 19.

Gray, Joseph, dies in prison at
Quebec, 54.

Great Meadow. See Putney,
Windham County, Vermont.

HARTFORD, Conn., 58.

Harthan, Jonathan. See Hoga-
dorn.

Harwood, John, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Hawks, John, sergeant, brought
to prison at Quebec, 48.

Hayward, Oliver, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Heald, Timothy, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 59.

Henry, Andrew, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

Hide, Joshua, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

Hinsdale's Fort, 14.

Hitchcock, Nathaniel, brought to
prison at Quebec, 49.

Hodinhull, Warwickshire, Eng-
land, probable home of Nehe-
miah How's ancestors, 18.

Hogadorn, Jonathan, dies in
prison at Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Holliston, Mass., captive from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
44.

Hoosuck Fort, otherwise called
Fort Massachusetts. See
Adams, Berkshire County,
Mass.

Hopkinton, N. H., captives from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
44; prisoners from, die at Que-
bec, 51 note, 55.

INDEX

Houlton, Joseph, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

How, Abner, son of Nehemiah
How, 20.

How, Caleb, the 1st, son of Ne-
hemiah How, 20.

How, Caleb, the 2d, son of Ne-
hemiah How, narrowly es-
capes capture by Indians, 12,
29; married the widow of Wil-
liam Phips, 20; scalped by In-
dians, 20.

How, Lord Charles, Earl of Lan-
caster, 18.

How, Sr., Daniel, brother of Ne-
hemiah How, 46, 49.

How, Jr., Daniel, nephew of Ne-
hemiah How, settles at "No. 2,"
8; captured by Indians, 46, 49;
lives with a Frenchman at
Montreal, 49; brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 53.

How, David, original subscriber
for How's tract, 58.

How, Easter, daughter of Ne-
hemiah How, 20.

How, Ebenezer, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

How, Edward, son of Nehemiah
How, 20.

How, Eliphalet, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

How, EzekieJ, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

How, Hannah, daughter of Nehe-
miah How, 20.

How, Israel, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

How, Jemima (Phips), wife of
Caleb How, 2d, captured by
Indians, 20.

How, John, probably of Hodin-
hull, Warwickshire, England,
great-grandfather of Nehemiah
How, 18.

How (Howe), John, grandfather
of Nehemiah How, 18, 19.

How, Joshua, son of Nehemiah
How, 20.

How, Margaret (Willard), wife
of Nehemiah How, 19.

How, Martha (Bent), first wife
of Samuel How, father of Ne-
hemiah How, 19.

How, Martha, daughter of Nehe-
miah How, 20.

How, Mary, paternal grandmoth-
er of Nehemiah How, 19.

How, Mary, daughter of Nehe-
miah How, 20.

How, Moses, original subscriber
for How's tract, 58.

How, Nehemiah, settles at Great
Meadow, 8; captured by Aben-
akis at Great Meadow, 10, 27;
his deposition to governor at
Quebec, 11, 38; led to Canada,
11-13; maltreated by Iroquois
at Chambly, 12; bibliography
of his "Narrative," 15-17; gen-
ealogy of, 18-21; death of, 20-
21, 56; writes his name on
bark for Indians, 29; at Crown
Point, 32; dances for Indians
at Crown Point, 33; Indians
quarrel about, 34; arrives at
Fort Chambly, 35-37; Indians
pelt him with snowballs, 36;
dances for Indians at Chambly,
36; beaten by two Indians and
rescued by Frenchmen, 36; ar-
rives at Quebec, 38; sent to
guard house at Quebec, 38;
sent to prison-keeper's quar-
ters at Quebec, 39, 41; sent to
regular prison at Quebec, 40,
40 note; leads the prisoners in
morning and evening devotion,
40-41; ill in prison, 41, 56; sev-
eral friends of, brought to pris-
on, 43; letters of Deacon Tim-
othy Brown brought to, 45;
receives letter from his fath-
er-in-law, 55; obituary of, 56.

66

INDEX

How, Samuel, lieutenant, father
of Nehemiah How, 19.

How, Samuel, son of Nehemiah
How, 20.

How, Sarah (Leavitt) (Clapp),
second wife of Samuel How,
and mother of Nehemiah How,
19.

How, Sarah, daughter of Nehe-
miah How, 20.

How, Submit, child of Nehemiah
How, 20.

How family, genealogy of, 18-21.

Howard, Daniel, major, original
subscriber for How's tract, 57.

Hubbard, John, captain, original
subscriber for How's tract, 57.

Hull, Mass., 53.

Huntington, Sr., Hezekiah, his
son dies in prison at Quebec,
54, 54 note.

Huntington, Jr., Hezekiah, dies
in prison at Quebec, 54.

Hyde. See Hide.

INDIANS, 7; depredations by, on
or near Great Meadow, 8, 9,
10, 11, 27-29; kill David Rugg,
11-12; attempt to burn Shat-
tuck's Fort; 14; burn fort at
Great Meadow, 14; method of
indicating their tracks, 28;
paint and erect on pole the
scalp of David Rugg, 31; sing
and dance around How, 31;
require How to dance, 33, 36;
intoxicated, 34, 35; quarrel
about How, 34; subdued by
Sieur de Beaulac, 34; dance
around scalp of David Rugg,
35; number at Fort Chambly
when How arrived there, 35;
throw snowballs at How, 36;
two of them beat How, 36;
threaten to go against the
Great Meadow settlement, 36-

37; depredations by, 42, 44, 45,
46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

See also under family and
tribal names for other refer-
ences.

Iroquois, maltreat Nehemiah
How, 12.

JONES, John, brought to prison at

Quebec, 46-47.
Jones, Thomas, brought to prison

at Quebec, 44; dies at Quebec,

47.
Jordan, James, captain, dies in

prison at Quebec, 53; one of

his men dies in prison, 53.

KEENE, N. H., 13; captive from,

'brought to prison at Quebec,

46.
Kincaid, origin of family name

of, 39 note.
Kincaid, James, imprisoned at

Quebec, 39, 40; account of, 39

note.

Kinkead, Kinkhead. See Kincaid.
Kinlade, James. See Kincaid.
Knowles, Sir Charles, 29 note.
Knowlton, Thomas, killed at

Fort Massachusetts, 48, 48

note.

LAKE} CHAMPLAIN, 12, 31, 34, 38.
Lancaster, Mass., 8, 58.
Lancaster, Earl of. See How,

Lord Charles.
Larrabee's Point, Vermont, 12,

31 note.
L'Aurore, French ship, persons

captured by, brought to prison

at Quebec, 49, 50, 50 note, 51

note.
Lawrence, Jonathan, captain,

original subscriber for How's

tract, 58.
Leavitt, Sarah. See How, Sarah

(Leavitt) (Clapp).

INDEX

67

Le Castor, French ship, persons
captured by, brought to prison
at Quebec, 49, 50, 50 note, 51
note.

Leicester, Mass., 59.

Leonard, Jonas, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

Leonard, Moses, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

London, England, 37, 40 note.

Lovet, Major, of Mendon, Mass.,
his son dies in prison at Que-
bec, 52.

Lovet, Samuel, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 48; dies at Que-
bec, 52.

Lower Ashuelot. See Swanzey,
N. H.

Lydius, John Henry, governor of
Fort Edward, also called Fort
Lydius, 36 note, 42.

Lydius's Fort. See Fort Edward.

Lydle, Leonard, prisoner at Que-
bec, marries the widow of
William Bryant, 50; his wife
dies in prison, 54.

Lydle, Sarah, widow of William
Bryant, married in prison to
Leonard Lydle, 50; dies in
prison at Quebec, 54.

Lynde, Judge, of New England,
39.

McGRAW. See Megraw.

McNear, John, captain, uncle of
James Anderson, Jr., captur-
ed, 50; brought to prison at
Quebec, 51, 51 note.

Magra, Thomas. See Megraw,
James.

Marbleheal, Mass., 40.

Margra, James. See Megraw.

Marin, M., lieutenant, depreda-
tion by, at Saratoga, 43 note.

Marlborough, Mass., 18, 19, 50,
59.

Marsey, Moses, captain, original
subscriber for How's tract, 58.

Maryland, 40 note.

Massachusetts, land-grants in
valley of the Connecticut
granted by, 7-8; schooner
"Montague," commanded by
Capt. William Pote, Jr., in ser-
vice of, 15; genealogical data
on How family in, 18-21; sends
letter for exchange of prison-
ers at Quebec, 45; John Perry
petitions government of, con-
cerning losses, 52 note.

Megraw, James, dies in prison at
Quebec, 53.

Melvin, Eleazer, captain, pur-
sues Indians trying to burn
Shattuck's Fort, 14.

Mendon, Mass., 52, 59.

Minot, James, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 57.

Moffat, Robert, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 46.

Montague, schooner, Capt. Wil-
liam Pote, Jr., master, 15.

Montreal, prisoners brought to,
42, 49, 50; prisoners from,
brought to Quebec, 43, 53;
scalps brought to, 50.

Morris, Charles, his map pub-
lished with Pote's "Journal,"
40 note.

Morse, Robert. See Moffat.

Munrow, Thomas, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

NALTON, Thomas. See Knowlton.

Nantasket, Mass., 53 note.

New Casco, incursion at, 49, 49
note.

New England, 36-37, 39, 47, 50,
52, 53, 54.

New Hampshire, grants town
charter to Great Meadow set-
tlers, 14.

New Hopkinton. See Hopkinton,
N. H.

68

INDEX

New York, grants town charter
to settlers at Great Meadow,
14; prisoner from, dies at
Quebec, 52.

New York Public Library (Len-
ox Library Building), depos-
itory of the copy of How's
tract used for this reprint,
16, 23.

Newfoundland, 47.

Norman, Mr., captive, 50.

Northfield, Mass., 13, 14, 46.

Northampton, Mass., 33.

Norton, Mass., 58.

Norton, Rev. John, 49; account
of his "Redeemed Captive," 15-
16, 48 note; brought to prison
at Quebec, 48; marries Leonard
Lydle and Sarah Bryant in
prison, 50; recovers from ill-
ness and preaches in prison
at Quebec, 52.

Norwich, Conn., 54 note.

Nova Scotia, 40 note.

Number Four (No. 4). See
Charlestown, N. H.

Number Two (No. 2). See West-
moreland, N. H.

Nutting, Samuel, narrowly es-
capes capture by Indians, 12,
29.

OWEN, James, of Brookfield,
Mass., killed on St. John's
Island, 47.

PAEKER, Isaac, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 43.

Pealtomy, Indian, visits How at
Crown Point, 32, 33; converses
with How, 34.

Perry, John, he and wife
brought to prison at Quebec,
48; his wife dies at Quebec, 52,
52 note; petitions government
of Massachusetts concerning
his losses, 52 note.

Perry, Rebecah, wife of John
Perry, dies in prison at Que-
bec, 52, 52 note.

Phips, Jemima. See How, Jemi-
ma (Phips).

Phips, Spencer, lieutenant-gov-
ernor of Mass., sends letter to
Canada for exchange of pris-
oners, 45.

Phips, William, settles at Great
Meadow, 8, 34 note; killed by
Indians on Great Meadow, 9,
34; his widow, Jemima, mar-
ried to Caleb How, 2d, son of
Nehemiah How, 20; account
of, 34 note.

Plaffer, Lawrence. See Platter.

Platter, Lawrence, captured at
Saratoga, dies at Quebec, 43, 43
note.

Pleasant Point, near George's
Fort, Maine, captive from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
44-45.

Plymouth, Mass., 54.

Pote, Jr., William, captain, mas-
ter of the schooner Montague,
account of his "Journal," 15,
40 note; his opinion of Nehe-
miah How, 21; in prison at
Quebec, 40; gap in his "Journ-
al," supplied by How, 41 note;
fellow captive of, arrives at
Quebec prison, 49, 49 note.

Pratt, Amos, brought to prison
at Quebec, 48; dies in prison,
53.

Prince Edward Island, formerly
St. John's, depredation on, 47;
captives from, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 47, 48.

Prisoners, at Montreal, 42, 49, 50,
53; at Quebec, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44,
45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54,
55; letter from Mass., propos-
ing exchange of, 45; petition

INDEX

69

governor of Canada to be ex-
changed, 46; illness and mor-
tality of, at Quebec, 51; isola-
tion of the sick, at Quebec, 52.
Putney, Windham County, Ver-
mont, description of, 7; his-
tory of, 7-14; Indian incur-
sions at, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 27-28,
34 note; Col. Josiah Willard
reconnoiters the region, in pur-
suit of Indians, 13-14; fort at,
burned by Indians, 14; desert-
ed region resettled, 14; new
fort built, 14; town charter
granted by New Hampshire,
14; town charter granted by
New York, 14; organized as
town, 14; Nehemiah How orig-
inal settler on Great Meadow
at, 19; How's capture by In-
dians at, 27; Indians at Fort
Chambly threaten to attack
again, 36-37.

QUACKINBTJSH, Martha, dies in
prison at Quebec, 51, 51 note.

Quebec, 8, 11, 12, 15, 20, 32 note;
How arrives at, 38; prison-
keeper's quarters at, 39; des-
cription of regular prison at,
40; rations to prisoners at, 40;
illness of prisoners at, 41;
governor at, sends money to
prisoners, 42; royal intendant
at, sends money to prisoners,
42; prisoners from Montreal
brought to, 43; captives im-
prisoned at, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44,
45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54;
deaths of prisoners at, 43, 47,
49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56;
snow in August at, 47; two
captives married in prison at,
50; illness and mortality of
prisoners at, 51; sick prison-
ers isolated at, 52; prison at,
burned, 54, 54 note.

Quebec River. See St. Lawrence
River.

RAWSON, Jr., William, original
subscriber for How's tract, 59.

Read, Jacob, brought to prison
at Quebec, 44; dies at Que-
bec, 50.

Read, John, dies at Quebec, 50.

Read, Josiah. See Reed.

Reed, Josiah, of Fort Massachu-
setts, dies, 48, 48 note.

Rice, Edward, captain, original
subscriber for How's tract, 57.

Richards, John, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 47.

Richelieu River. See Sorel River.

Roberson. See Roberts, David,
captain.

Roberts, David, captain, his ap-
prentice dies in prison at Que-
bec, 50, 51 note.

Rochester, N. H., captives from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
47; depredation at, 47, 47 note.

Ross, Aaron, original subscriber
for How's tract, 57.

Rugg, David, settles at Great
Meadow, 8; killed and scalped
by Indians, 11-12, 28; his scalp
painted and stuck on a pole,
31; Indians dance around scalp
of, 35.

Rumford, N. H., 44.

Rutland, Mass., 8, 57.

Saco, Maine, depredation at,
50, 50 note.

St. Francis. See Abenakis.

St. John's Island. See Prince
Edward Island.

St. Lawrence River, 12, 37 note,
38.

Saneld, John. See Smeed, Jr.,
John.

Saratoga, N. Y., attack on, at-
tributed by How to Albany,
41 note, 43 note', letters to

INDEX

prisoners from, brought to
prison at Quebec, 45.

Savage, Edward, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Scaffield, Philip, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 53; dies in pris-
on, 53.

Schuyler, Nicholas, captain, 42
note.

Schuylerville, N. Y. See Sara-
toga.

Scoffil, Philip, bee Scaffield.

Scot. See Scott.

Scotland, 39 note.

Scott, Joseph, brought to prison
at Quebec, 48.

Scott, Miriam, wife of Moses
Scott, dies in prison at Quebec,
51, 51 note.

Scott, Sr., Moses, he and family
brought to prison at Quebec,
48; his wife dies at Quebec,
51; his son dies at Quebec, 52,
52 note.

Scott, Jr., Moses, youngest child
of Moses Scott, dies in prison
at Quebec, 52, 52 note.

Scott, Stephen, brought to prison
at Quebec, 49.

Scott (Scot), William, brought to
prison at Quebec, 53.

Seaflower, schooner, Capt. James
Sutherland, commander, 40
note.

Shamballe, Shamballee. See
Chambly.

Shattuck's Fort, Indians attempt
to burn, 14.

Shearly. See Chalet.

Sheepscott, Maine, captives from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
39, 44, 50, 54.

Sheepscott river, 54.

Shepard, John, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

Shepherd, Jacob, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 49, 49 note.

Sherborn, Mass., 47.

Shrewsbury, Mass, 53, 58.

Sinconds, Benjamin, brought to
prison at Quebec, 48.

Smeed, Captivity, dies at Quebec,
55, 55 note.

Smeed, Daniel, dies in prison at
Quebec, 54.

Smeed, Sr., John, he and family
brought to prison at Quebec,
48; his wife dies in prison, 53;
his son John dies in prison,
53, 53 note', his son Daniel dies
in prison, 54; his youngest
child, Captivity, dies at Que-
bec, 55, 55 note.

Smeed, Jr., John, dies in prison
at Quebec, 53, 53 note.

Smeed, Mary, wife of John
Smeed, dies in prison at Que-
bec, 53.

Smith, John, brought to prison
at Quebec, 53.

Smith, Richard, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 53.

fcjorel River, 12, 37; its names,
37 note.

South Carolina, 39.

Spafford, John, captain, brought
to prison at Quebec, 43.

Springfield, Mass., 59.

Stebbins, Luke, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 59.

Stevens, Joseph, captain, orig-
inal subscriber for How's
tract, 57.

Stone, Jonas, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 58.

Stone, Nathan, original subscrib-
er for How's tract, 57.

Stoughton, Mass., 58.

Stratton, Ensign, takes part in
pursuit of Indians near Great
Meadow, 13.

Stroud, William, from South
Carolina, imprisoned at Que-
bec, 39.

INDEX

Stubs, Richard, brought, to pris-
on at Quebec, 49.

Sturbridge, Mass., 58.

Subes, Richard. See Stubs.

Sudbury, Mass., 18, 19, 58.

Sunderland, John, brought to
prison at Quebec, 53.

Sutherland, James, captain, com-
mander of schooner Seaflower,
in prison at Quebec, 40; ac-
count of, 40 note.

Swanzey, N. H., captive from,
brought to prison at Quebec,
45.

TAINTEB, Benjamin, brought to
prison at Quebec, 53.

Tainter, Simon, lieutenant, his
son in prison at Quebec, 53.

Taylor's Island in Connecticut
river, 11.

Tedder, Christian. Se Vedder.

Thayer, Jonathan, narrowly es-
capes capture by Indians, 12,
28, 29.

Townsend (Townshend), Mass.,
59.

Trent, Capt, killed, 54.

UPPER ASHUELOT. See Keene, N. H.
Upton, Mass., 58.
Uxbridge, Mass., 58.

VADER, Christian. See Vedder.
Vanderverick, Geret, dies in

prison at Quebec, 51, 51 note.
Vaughan, Samuel, dies in prison

at Quebec, 54.
Vedder, Christian, dies in prison

at Quebec, 54, 54 note.
Venhon, Samuel. See Vaughan.
Vermont, 12.
Vernon, Vt., depredation at, 46

note.

WARREN, David, brought to pris-
on at Quebec, 48.
Warwickshire, England, 18.

Watertown, Mass., 18.

Westborough, Mass., 49, 53.

Westmoreland, N. H., formerly
called "No. 2" settlement of, 8.

Wheeler, Thomas, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 57.

Wigglesworth, Rev. Dr. Edward,
his autograph on copy of
How's tract used for this re-
print, 16.

Willard, Benjamin, captain, fath-
er-in-law of Nehemiah How,
19; sends letter to How, 55.

Willard, Benjamin, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Willard, Daniel, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Willard, Josiah, colonel, com-
mands scouting party near
Great Meadow, 13-14.

Willard, Margaret. See How,
Margaret (Willard).

Willard, Samuel, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Williams, Rev. Eleazer, great-
grandson of Eunice Williams,
32 note.

Williams, Eunice, daughter of
Rev. John Williams, married
to Amrusus (otherwise called
De Rogers), an Indian, 32, 32
note.

Williams, Rev. John, captured
by Indians in 1704 at Deerfleld,
32, 32 note', returns to Boston
and publishes account of cap-
tivity, 32 note.

Williamson, Jonathan, captain,
brought to prison at Quebec,
54.

Windham County, Vermont, 7,
27 note.

Witt, Oliver, original subscriber
for How's tract, 59.

Wood, Jonathan, original sub-
scriber for How's tract, 58.

Woodstock, 58.

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Woodwell, Daniel. See Wood- Woodwell, Mary, wife of David

well, David. Woodwell, dies in prison at

Woodwell, David, brought to Quebec, 51, 51 note.

prison at Quebec, 44; two sons, Worcester, Mass., 57.

daughter and wife of, cap- Wright, Noah, his account of at-

tured, 44, 46; his wife dies at tack on Great Meadow, 10

Quebec, 51, 51 note. note, 11.

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